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The ephemeral joy felt when someone else has a combination of two niche interests of mine

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reminders for today:

if you or someone you know might need it in the next few years, purchase plan b. the shelf life of plan b is 4 years, and we might not be able to access it as easily as we can now in the days ahead.

if you are larger/plus size: go online and purchase ella instead of plan b. plan b is less effective if you aren’t under 160 pounds.

if you can, purchase books that project 2025 is looking to ban.

mass deportations are starting. if you see ice vehicles or agents, yell ice raid and la migra as loud as you can.

if someone asks who you voted for, keep your mouth shut. they’re fishing for traitors.

if anyone, anyone at all asks about your neighbors or their legal status in the us, you know nothing. don’t be the reason that their family is separated.

if anyone asks about your religion or lack thereof, keep it vague. this administration will look for any excuse to persecute you.

your friends are trans or queer? for the next four years they’re not. don’t expose anyone’s status as a trans or queer person to anyone else, even if you think you can trust them.

did someone you know get an abortion? no, they didn’t. they were never pregnant.

in short, don’t be a snitch, and keep to yourself these next four years. we’ll make it through this even if it seems hopeless at times.

this is all i can think of at the moment, but i’ll be adding on to this as the day continues.

we can survive this. we’ve survived before, and we’ll survive again.

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"crawling back to you" hozier edit but it's me going to tumblr after the tiktok ban. feels good to be home.

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Ok but seriously even though y'all hate tiktok it's not good that its being banned for being chinese. That's literally just racism. Yeah I don't like it- but literally all of its flaws are also prevalent in other apps. which doesn't mean its okay to have misinfo or addictiveness- just that those other apps / socials aren't getting banned specifically for its "chinese influence."

I don't like tiktok either but it's obvious that it's ban stems from racism

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it's just really fucking frustrating that we live in a world where I grew up being trained to believe that addicts are unloveable. and then I became an addict and I was still told that addicts are unloveable. and I just have to deal with the fact that there are people out there who believe that I don't deserve love, or that my partner is brave for loving me, or that my family and friends are suffering just from me existing. and that's fine that's just the way it is

but then on top of that. I have to deal with tumblr users telling me (an addict!!!) that they hate addicts in a cool new way that I should be totally sympathetic towards. see, they had a family member who was the most evil person on the planet! and that family member was an addict! so they can't help the fact that they now want all addicts to die! they can't help it! blast them all.

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Got on rednote, and even though I never liked tiktok (NOT for it being cringe nor "spyware"- its just not my cup of tea.) but thought I'd try it out anyway and genuinely having such a good time. Haven't posted any posts yet but it's genuinely sparking my interest in trying to learn mandarin infinitely more than anything else ever + I actually kinda like the algorithm there lol

(user is @vinguistic just like all my other socials lol)

Anyway if any of y'all are interested in learning mandarin I'd genuinely suggest getting on there- its fun and literally half of my feed is either mandarin vocab lists or native mandarin speakers with captions w/ translations (perf for learning lol) + the community there is super supportive of all the English speakers who are trying to learn

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sorry for being weird and evasive. i was raised to believe that having wants and needs was a moral failing

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the slippery-slope doom-loop jews are in right now is so unfortunate. us jews will go out and state that zionism =/= judaism and antizionism =/= antisemitism. we go through the trouble of explaining that chanukkah is not "the most zionist" holiday or even celebrated as a zionist holiday by all jews. zionist jews come out and say zionism IS part of judaism, antizionism IS antisemitism, chanukkah IS exclusively a zionistic celebration. then antisemetic pro-palistinians who THINK they are being allies to palestine (and even think theyre being allies to jews. somehow) will be like "CHANUKKAH!!! UR CELEBRATING CHANUKKAH!! ZIONIST!!" in instagram comments. at random fucking jews. who arent even zionist. so then they have to explain: "i do not find the miracle of the oil zionistic at all. idgaf about the maccabees, they killed hundreds of jews. its not about them for me. also i dont support israel. you are being antisemitic for assuming that about me, some random jew." all of which are true. but then they point you back to resources from zionist jews who are saying absolutely 100% exactly what the gentiles just implied. and its like. "idk how to explain to you that those are self-hating, racist, antisemitic jews you are getting your information from." but then you try to explain that, and then the other side is like "no YOU are the self-hating, racist, antisemitic jew" meanwhile all this infighting is happening and gentiles are still being BOTH racist AND antisemitic

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Also btw yes in other contexts it makes sense to use positive/negative to mean good/bad but like I'm specifically saying with schizophrenia those terms mean something different. Not saying that you can't ever use those words that way ever lol- just please don't try to say I'm "making a disorder seem fun" when I say hallucinations are a positive symptom thats all I beg

People who don't know anything about schizophrenia really need to understand that positive symptoms doesn't mean "good symptoms" omfg

It just means things are added to your experience- example being an auditory hallucination is a sound added to your experience when that sound isn't normally there. similarly negative symptoms means things are taken away- like a lack of showing emotions or not wanting to socialise

I'm not the best at explaining this so definitely look into actual doctors wordings on this stuff for more I'm just trying to tell y'all in this context positive symptoms doesn't mean I'm having fun with it

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We have already averted truly apocalyptic levels of global warming.

Yes, read that again. Let it sink in. This is what the science now says. We have already averted truly apocalyptic global warming.

To quote David Wallace-Wells, author of The Uninhabitable Earth, from his huge feature in the New York Times:

"Thanks to astonishing declines in the price of renewables, a truly global political mobilization, a clearer picture of the energy future and serious policy focus from world leaders, we have cut expected warming almost in half in just five years... The window of possible climate futures is narrowing, and as a result, we are getting a clearer sense of what’s to come: a new world, full of disruption but also billions of people, well past climate normal and yet mercifully short of true climate apocalypse." (New York Times, October 22, 2022. Unpaywalled here. Emphasis mine. And yes, this vision of the future is backed up by the current science on the issue, as he explains at length in the article.)

So we've already averted truly apocalyptic warming, and we've already cut expected warming IN HALF in just the past five years.

The pace of technology, of innovation, of prices, of feasibility, of discovery, of organizing, of grassroots movements, of movements in other countries around the world, have all picked up the pace so fast in the last five years.

Renewable technology and capacity are both increasing at an exponential rate. It's all S-curves, ones that look like this:

-via The Economist, June 20, 2024.

How much more will we manage in another five years? Another ten? Another twenty?

I know the US is about to fucking suck about the environment for the next four years. But the momentum of renewable energy is far too much to stop - both in the US (x) and around the world.

(Huge shoutouts to India, China, and Brazil for massive gains for the environment in renewables, and Brazil for massive progress against Amazon deforestation.)

We're going to get there.

Say it with me. We're going to get there.

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People who don't know anything about schizophrenia really need to understand that positive symptoms doesn't mean "good symptoms" omfg

It just means things are added to your experience- example being an auditory hallucination is a sound added to your experience when that sound isn't normally there. similarly negative symptoms means things are taken away- like a lack of showing emotions or not wanting to socialise

I'm not the best at explaining this so definitely look into actual doctors wordings on this stuff for more I'm just trying to tell y'all in this context positive symptoms doesn't mean I'm having fun with it

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The only thing broken on my 3DS is the little toggle between 3D & 2D- which is mostly just annoying cause it's stuck in the 3D mode lol :v

if multiple parts are broken just click the first one you noticed!

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Just had a dream I was in one of those 2000's horror games set in a hospital and there was a horse/wolf hybrid with many eyes. It also had a wolf cub with it that it was protecting. The beginning of the game is you try to shoot the horsewolf, which does weaken it for a bit but by shooting it you release (& get infected by) a virus that is how the horsewolf tracks you down.

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this website is so funny because every couple years we repeat the discourse of "which marginalised group is it morally okay for us to shit on?" and somehow nobody ever learns from it. we just look back and go, "hey, remember that time when everyone was joking about how ace people should all be put in meat grinders? that was so messed up. we should not have done that. anyway, here's my topical joke about how polyamorous people should all be put in meat grinders."

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You can replace [ACTIVITY YOU ENJOY] with [SCROLLING] but watch out. This sucks bad 👍

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[PT: Because we would be calling attention to the existence of a species that is so infinitely worth knowing : End PT]

[Comic ID 1: drawing of an empty tortoise shell, with overlayed text "When a tortoise dies, its shell remains. A monument to what it once was, refusing to return to the earth."

Comic ID 2: a closeup image of a moth on the tortoise shell with text "until a little moth finds the aging shell"

Comic ID 3: a trail of moth eggs, small white balls, trail off from the moth onto the tortoise shell with the text "she lays a string of pears, she brings life to the grave."

Comic ID 4: caterpillars emerge from the eggs with the text "child custodians, laying to rest remains of a life long lived."

Comic ID 5: the caterpillar burrows through the tortoise shell, there is a small leafy plant growing from the dirt below. the text "a cycle where shells sustain new plants for new tortoises"

Comic ID 6: underground there is the skull of a tortoise with text "but the tortoises have become few, their shells fewer."

Comic ID 7: two moths flying around in the grass "and our curator slowly follows"

Comid ID 8: a more zoomed out image of the moth in the grass surrounded by leaves with text "yet our world would never know unless our attention is called to a moth that eats tortoise shells"

Comic ID 9: image of a night sky with a trail of sparkles indicating the flight of a moth ""we should speak up on behalf of this little moth"

Comic ID 10: a beautiful sparkling night sky with a moth flying with the text "not because by doing so we'd bolster conservation [...], but because we would be calling attention to the existence of a species that is so infinitely worth knowing." - M. Deyrup, N.D Deyrup, M. Eisner, and T. Eisner" : End Comic ID]

[Meme ID: pixelated kitten standing with their hand resting on a wall and teary eyes edited over their face with the text "wait hold on a minute. I think I need a moment wait. Wait. Wait. Hold on, I need a moment. I need. to sit down i think wait, please i am breaking down. Wait old hohn on, wait please I am breaking down. Hold on, wai : End Meme ID]

Saddest thing ever is reading an academic paper about a threatened or declining species where you can tell the author is really trying to come up with ways the animal could hypothetically be useful to humans in a desperate attempt to get someone to care. Nobody gives a shit about the animals that “don’t affect” us and it seriously breaks my heart